Merced Newswire

When she is not powder coating parts at Scott Eastwood's facility, Eastwood Industries, Marissa Odgers is hell on wheels in her racecar, racing at Chowchilla Speedway in Merced, California. The race season runs March through October, and in November they finish the season in Las Vegas at a large race, the Duel in the Desert, which attracts hundreds of racers from all over the U.S. MO : I started racing when I was 14. I started in the beginner's class, the four-cylinder division.
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... reportedly helped someone out of the overturned vehicle, according to the Highway Patrol. A CHP dispatcher in Merced confirmed the vehicle accident. Information about possible injuries was not immediately available. The Union Democrat is now online ...
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The central San Joaquin Valley is a good place for an assessment of Medicare and Medicaid on their 50th anniversary Thursday. Nearly 58% of the people in Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced and Tulare counties rely on the government insurance programs to pay their medical bills.
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... summer club. “It's cool to be part of something that is on the way up,” catcher Darren Trainor of Merced College, said. “I think these guys are doing it right here. Speaking from where I played last summer, we were a losing ...
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Altoma, a CRE mortgage and capital markets intermediary based in California, successfully placed and closed a $5,900,000 loan on a Class B strip retail center in the Portland, OR SMSA on April 23rd, 2015. On July 8, 2015, Altoma also placed and closed a $5,800,000 loan for a Class B theater anchored retail center in Merced, CA.
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Fresno police arrested two Merced men Saturday after they were caught allegedly burglarizing a tented house being fumigated for pests. Around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched to a home near the intersection of East Princeton Avenue and North Thesta Street in central Fresno.
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... Ochoa ran down the street while Garcia retreated back into the house. The vehicle they used was reported stolen in Merced. Ochoa was taken into custody after being bitten by a police K-9. Garcia surrendered after being exposed to pesticides inside ...
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... Irvine. A bill being considered by the California legislature would establish a work-permit program. ATWATER To some Merced County farmers, a bill that would allow farmworkers who live in the country illegally to get work permits could be a solution ...
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To some Merced County farmers, a bill that would allow farmworkers who live in the country illegally to get work permits could be a solution to labor shortages. Merced-area farmers said the proposal makes sense for their businesses because it would help widen the pool of field workers, the Merced Sun Star reports Saturday.
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Some Merced County farmers say a bill that would allow farmworkers who live in the country illegally to access work permits could be a solution to labor shortages. The Merced Sun Star reports Saturday that Merced-area farmers find the proposal makes sense for their business.
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... where he became a self-taught attorney and passed the state bar exam in 1911. He opened his own law office in Merced, California , then worked for five years for a sales agency. In 1921, he returned to the practice of law, creating the firm of ...
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Msgr. Raymond Dreiling, vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, with Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Sartillo, Mexico, before listening Pope Francis speak in Bolivia on Thursday. Carmen Medrano, a Faith in the Valley organizer from Fresno, holds a Hmong embroidery from Merced that was given to Pope Francis during his trip to Bolivia.
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Country singer Mark Chesnutt performs 8 p.m. Thursday, July 9, at Merced Theatre, 301 W. Main St., with special guest Cottonwood Creek, a Merced County duo. Masters of Rock is the featured band at tonight's outdoor concert that includes vendor booths and a variety of food options.
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... council is a HUD-certified agency that provides foreclosure counseling and homeownership education to residents from Merced to Tulare counties. "One of the biggest challenges we have is to get the word out" about our agency, said executive director ...
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... This means that one-third of entering students should be transfers, both systemwide and at each campus except Merced by 2017, said Jacob Jackson, research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Only three campuses Davis, Los Angeles ...
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A man who was killed Friday in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 152, east of Los Banos in Merced County, was identified as an active military member from Los Angeles, the Merced County Coroner's Office confirmed Monday. Gaviola was the driver of a Toyota Highlander carrying five passengers.
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... by exploding fireworks and only learned the injuries were from a gunshot when they arrived at Mercy Medical Center in Merced, police said. "Neither the victim nor witnesses in the area heard or saw anything suspicious and no one saw anyone firing a ...
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